Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there was a demand to move from svn to git from Marc and Sebastian. I
>> also believe, that git would save some maintenance work, mainly because
>> patches could be prepared and applied more easily to the trees used for
>> development. Here are my ideas:
>>
>> - I would like to keep the out-of-tree code we have currently under SVN
>>   mainly because backward compatibility with older kernels is a really
>>   useful feature, not only for development but also for the real users.
>>   Maintaining a full git tree with that backward compatibility is much
>>   more work, I believe.
>>
>> - Move the SVN kernel/2.6/ tree to git, without the "old" drivers
>>   and plus strip-src.
>>
>> - Move the SVN can-utils to a separate git tree.
>>
>> - Abandon the SVN repository. We keep it, of course, also for support of
>>   2.4, but we should not spend time for updates.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> But what about the 2.4 tree?
> Does is make sense to put it into a separate git tree?
> 
> I also wondered if i should ask Willy Tarreau if he would take the CAN stuff
> into the 2.4 mainline ...

For both items, I think it's not worth the effort and it will require a
real effort to get it into 2.4. But if you have free resources... ;-).

Wolfgang.
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